All the headlines from our District Of Columbia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2019 // E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing mounting scrutiny from state law enforcement officials, with the attorneys general in Illinois and the District of Columbia investigating how the company’s blockbuster vaping...
Aug 27 2019 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Jessie...
Aug 20 2019 // Blank Rome LLP has announced that Partner Helen K. Michael has joined the firm’s Insurance Recovery group based in its Washington, D.C., office.Michael joins from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where she...
Jul 19 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies have expanded its commercial automobile product into Delaware, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia.The company’s policy is designed for local and intermediate travel...
Jun 4 2019 // Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’ personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the information for...
Apr 29 2019 // Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S. city to set such a policy.The proposal is part of a broader plan to protect Washington, which is...
Mar 4 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council.The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
Feb 21 2019 // Insurtech Trōv is now offering its on-demand online, single-item insurance products in seven additional states and the District of Columbia.Trōv has now expanded into Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Michigan,...
Feb 14 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council.The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
Jan 24 2019 // Independent insurance agency Ensurise LLC has merged with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Reese, Yeatman & Associates Inc.Founded more than 40 years ago by Michael G. Reese Sr., Reese...
Jan 22 2019 // M&T Insurance Agency (MTIA) has hired Jeffrey Batt to its Washington, D.C., office as the cyber insurance practice leader.In this role, he will manage client relationships by providing cyber insurance and risk...
Aug 29 2018 // The pastor of a Baltimore, Md., church has pled guilty to setting fire to an apartment he rented in Southeast Washington in a plan to collect insurance money.Jamel Carelock, the pastor of Lead Church, pled guilty in the...
Jun 5 2018 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the shares of Flather & Perkins Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1917, Flather...
Mar 22 2018 // Lemonade, the insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, has launched in both Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. It announced the expansion on social media.These mark the sixth and seventh...
Dec 19 2017 // Lockton, a global, privately held insurance broker, has hired Bruce Cohen as a senior vice president and client executive as it continues to grow its business in the Northeast.Cohen brings to this role nearly 30 years of...
Dec 19 2017 // The deadly Amtrak crash in Washington state marked the railroad’s third fatal accident in as many years, putting the passenger rail operator under fresh scrutiny less than a month after safety regulators issued a...
Nov 17 2017 // Assurance, a Top 50 U.S. insurance brokerage, has hired Eric Wolfrey to its Washington D.C. team to serve as a risk management consultant.Wolfrey will provide business insurance and risk management solutions to a variety...
Oct 27 2017 // Assurance, a Schaumburg, Ill.-headquartered, independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jack Groseclose to serve as an employee benefits advisor.In his new role, Groseclose will be based in Washington D.C., furthering...
Jul 24 2017 // The tension between Washington, D.C., and Sacramento seems to have created extra work for some lobbyists.“It’s absolutely palpable,” Paul Yoder, managing director for the California Coalition on...
Jul 12 2017 // The tension between Washington D.C. and Sacramento seems to have created extra work for some lobbyists.“It’s absolutely palpable,” Paul Yoder, managing director for the California Coalition on...